Posts Tagged ‘#selfdevelopment’
How To Go From Powerless to Powerful with Intentional Impact
How To Go From Powerless to Powerful with Intentional Impact Core Article Originally Published on Forbes We keep throwing this word around called ‘impact’. Can you go from powerless to powerful? Do you know what your impact is and how would you define, discover, understand or leverage it? It’s like the way my husband describes calories:…
Read MoreHow to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece
How to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Article Originally Published on Forbes John Maxwell says “If you want to live a life of significance, you will have to give up some things. The pathway of possibility is filled with trade-offs.” I will admit that this is probably one of the most difficult…
Read MoreHow to Get What Most Professionals Want
How to Get What Most Professionals Want Most professionals want a fulfilling career. The truth is: few will actually find one. It’s no big secret about what most professionals want but there are massive misunderstandings in how to achieve a fulfilling career. The reason most professionals will not ‘find’ a fulfilling career is because these…
Read MoreLife Lessons are Learned Best from Others
Life Lessons are Learned Best from Others I had a young mentee once say to me: “What can I learn from a mentor that I can’t learn from Google?” I was stunned and then saddened. The ability to learn life lessons from others is a valuable trait to cultivate. Not only do you shorten your…
Read MoreA New Perspective for the Unemployed: 5 Tips to Increase Your Value
A New Perspective for the Unemployed: 5 Tips to Increase Your Value Every day hundreds of Americans join the unemployment line. While the media assures us that unemployment is at an all-time low, we all know that is a statistic based on shaky data. As our economy struggles to once again find a firm foothold…
Read MoreThe Shocking Truth: Being An Overachiever Will Hurt Your Career
Article Originally Published on Forbes I’m not sure when it all started. From the time I can remember, I put my toys away neatly while other children played with reckless abandon. I was shy, quiet, loved to build with Legos and organizing things. One day I grew up, lost the shyness, became a professional young…
Read More5 Authentic Ways for Women to Lead Impactful Careers
Why Women? From a career coach’s perspective, my clients that struggle the most with the concept of defining personal achievement are women. It’s not because these ladies aren’t competent, savvy professionals. This phenomenon can be attributed to cultural brainwashing. Quite simply put: we women aren’t necessarily taught to excel in the business world! There are many ways…
Read More4 Proven Fundamentals to Overcome Our Obsession with Failure
What makes successful people excel in almost every aspect of their life? What’s the secret? You know what I’m talking about. Some call it luck. These achievers seem to be able to accomplish amazing things in life and overcome tremendous obstacles. They don’t appear to know what failure is! Our society is consumed with an…
Read MoreHow to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece
How to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Ever wonder how some successful people are able to accomplish so much? Some appear to be mysteriously blessed with time to suit their purposes while the rest of us are gasping for breath just trying to get through the day. There are no mysteries to be solved. No…
Read MoreThe Art of Being in the Moment and Letting Go of “Should”
The Art of Being in the Moment and Letting Go of “Should” I realized one day that I was wasting precious time agonizing over something I felt I ‘should’ do but wasn’t for reasons that made perfect logical sense. Yet, there I was, not living in the moment and not appreciating the NOW. I was…
Read MoreHow to Achieve 25% More Free Time by Doing 1 Thing
The internet is full of advice on how to maximize your personal productivity and get more free time. With a wealth of information at our fingertips and zillions of articles about how to improve one’s lifestyle, the question is: why aren’t these tips helping? The thing is; if you are like most people: short on…
Read MoreDon’t Sweat the Wrong Stuff – 7 Steps to Eliminate Unnecessary Stress
Someone cut you off in traffic. The pot on the stove boiled over. The wifi went out and you couldn’t live stream the game. The dog chewed your shoes … again. Your boyfriend didn’t give you the gift you expected at Valentine’s Day and your coworker won’t stop talking loudly in his cubicle next door! These…
Read MoreThree Keys to a New Year and a New You
“I will be so glad for the New Year – 2016 has been terrible!” a friend said to me a couple weeks ago. Similar feelings on the subject have been echoed in my ears by clients, colleagues, and posts all over social media since before September! I will have to agree that 2016 has been challenging…
Read MoreBreaking Out of the Box – 6 Steps to Career Bliss
So many Americans suffer from mid-career crisis or professional stagnation. If I had a dollar for every time I heard: “I’ve been doing the same job for years, but I don’t really like what I do” I would be writing this from a nice little private island. It’s a scary world out there and many of…
Read MoreUnplug from Toxic – How to Survive Negative Quicksand
How to Survive Negative Quicksand Toxic Noise isn’t just the recent Presidential election and it doesn’t just come from your television or spew forth from your radio. We are profoundly impacted by all varieties of inputs in our lives and they, in turn, can alter our actions, our emotions, our perspective, and our attitude – even…
Read MoreKindness Might Be the Key to Success
Historically kindness is often considered a weakness in the world of business. We don’t want to subdue the fire and quench the passion that drives us to achieve, be successful, and move up the ladder of the corporate world. We can’t be successful by rolling over, taking a back seat, and being non-confrontational. When we think…
Read MoreNo Signal, No Worries – Control Freak to Clarity
No signal, no worries – and a few lessons learned on vacation without cell signal. I learned that I was an obsessive weather app checker. For some, it’s Facebook, Twitter, or even Pinterest. For me: it’s the weather. Upon reflection, this makes sense for an outdoorsy type with hobbies that include hiking and cycling. After…
Read More4 Links Between a Massive Sinkhole and Self Recharging
A Sinkhole and Self Recharging – an Unlikely Connection? As we look back on the years of 2015 and 2016 in Texas, it may be forever known as the Perpetual Flood Years. As a friend of mine stated: “We’ve had three 100-year floods in 2 years!” Just in the month of May last year: Texas…
Read MoreGive Up to Go Up: 4 Steps to Success
“If you want to live a life of significance, you will have to give up some things. The pathways of possibility is filled with trade-offs.” – John Maxwell I will admit that this is probably one of the most difficult success principles for me to swallow. I’m the Queen of Over-Achievement! I want to do…
Read MoreSuccess Story or Social Pressure?
Ever find yourself thinking “I should really do this …” but you aren’t thrilled about it? You aren’t alone: it’s called a feeling of obligation often coupled with the word: Should – which is one of my most despised words. I found myself using ‘should’ frequently when thinking about the next steps I should take…
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